Fathom is a different kind of cruise that combines your love of travel with the desire to make a difference in the world. It is a new category of travel: social impact travel. Part of the Carnival Corporation family of 10 brands, Fathom offers travellers authentic, meaningful travel experiences and allows them to work alongside locals as they tackle community needs. Sailing aboard the MV Adonia, a 710-passenger vessel redeployed from Carnival Corporation’s P&O Cruises (UK), Fathom will mobilise, educate and equip travellers on every trip allowing for thousands of impact activity days per week and tens of thousands of travellers a year an unprecedented scale for impact.
Launched in June 2015, Fathom made history in July when it received US approval to sail from the US to Cuba and it is working to finalise Cuban approval. Currently Fathom is accepting reservations for its inaugural voyage to Cuba beginning in May 2016. Fathom has announced that it intends to visit three ports of call in Cuba: Havana, Cienfuegos and Santiago de Cuba. It also unveiled the intended seven-day itinerary that Fathom travellers will experience featuring an authentic Cuban cultural immersion: part learning, part sharing, and all immersion into the Cuban culture and full connection with the Cuban people.
Special onboard programmes will include a wide variety of activities covering an array of interests, ranging from an orientation to the country’s history, customs and culture, to casual fun, personal enrichment activities, conversational Spanish lessons, guided sessions with the Fathom team to share insights, ideas, and opportunities about the future of cultural exchange travel to Cuba.
In addition, beginning in April 2016, Fathom will begin sailing to Amber Cove, a new port in the Dominican Republic and the company’s first social impact destination. In the Dominican Republic, Fathom will offer consumers authentic, meaningful impact travel experiences to work alongside locals as they tackle community needs. Fathom collaborated with various Dominican stakeholders including community leaders, officials and leaders of top local non-profits with deep roots in the country to identify activities that would make lasting contributions to the community.
For more information contact local agents, the Cruise and Travel group, on 2132 2001 or visit www.cruiseandtravel.eu/fathom.html.